Overview
Senior Lead Data Scientist for Publisher Analytics Jobs in Secaucus, NJ at Andiamo
Title: Senior Lead Data Scientist for Publisher Analytics
Company: Andiamo
Location: Secaucus, NJ
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Our client is seeking a Senior Lead Data Scientist to join the Analytics team. The candidate will demonstrate a successful track record of achieving business insight and optimization through the use of data mining and machine learning techniques
The Analytics Engineer will be comfortable working across the full spectrum of data science related disciplines spanning quantitative research, data acquisition, and solution engineering. The Analytics Engineer will work as part of an interdisciplinary Agile team closely aligned with Scholastic business units to develop and deploy predictive and prescriptive analytical solutions. The Analytics Engineer will train and mentor junior data scientists in other teams, and work closely with peers and management to strengthen analytic competency across the enterprise
The ideal candidate will be distinguished not only by his or her mastery of quantitative methods and data engineering, but also by high levels of creativity and tenacity
Key Responsibilities include
Research, develop and implement new methods of measuring and analyzing data sets and processes
Discovering stories told by data and presenting them to the business through rich visualizations
Work on formulation, implementation, testing and validation of predictive models
Participating in a full development cycle from product inception, research and prototyping to release into production
Qualifications & Requirements
Master’s Degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative discipline
The ability to summarize analytical results and to efficiently communicate insights
Develop best practices for instrumentation and experimentation
Experience with high-volume, highly dimensional data from multiple sources
Expert knowledge of a wide array of data science algorithms
Experience mentoring junior data scientists
Preferred Educations, Skills and Experience
Ph.D. in Math, Statistics, Computer Science or other quantitative discipline
Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and Amazon Redshift
Experience with Tableau and Microsoft Analysis Services
Experience with NoSQL data stores and MapReduce implementations
Experience with Publishing or Media companies
Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban)
Join our Client's Team:
You will be working with the foremost publisher of children's books in the world. With such memorable characters as Harry Potter and Clifford the Big Red Dog, they are in partnership with 90% of US schools. The technology group is a growing, data-driven, intellectually curious group of engineers working in predictive analytics, business intelligence, and data management.
